Foil dinghy Nikki

Nikki is the first foiling dinghy specifically designed for kids and lighter sailors. The ultimate pathway to high-performance sailing and foiling!

Fully open, modern scow designed for safe learning to foil and fun, competitive sailing.
Capable of planing up and down-wind, bringing a whole new level of fun to youth sailing – a new thrill to captivate and entrench young sailors into the sport for life!

The hull is stable, robust and simple. The steering is light and direct, allowing new sailors to develop their skills and feeling.

Specifications

Length: 2.9m
Width: 1.02m without wings, 1.8m with wings
Hull Weight: 27kgs
Sail Area: 4.3m², 5.5m² or 6.5m²
Launching Draft: 0.2m
Sailing Draft: 0.9m
Sailor Weight Range: 25-65kgs
Takeoff Boat Speed: 7.5 knots
Takeoff Wind Speed: 7 knots
Max Speed: 22 Knots +

Innovative Foil Design

Fully articulating balanced lifting foil design dramatically reduces the risk of “foiling crashes”, making foiling much easier and safer.
Very low drag and always in laminal flow means speed and efficiency.

Easy Launching

Fully retractable Daggerboard and Rudder Verticals, and clip on lifting foils that allow you to launch straight from the trolley. No need to tip the boat over.
Clamps on both centreboard and rudder box, to hold retracted foils while on land.

Safety

Fully-adjustable wand allows sailors to start low to the water’s surface and gradually fly higher as they gain skill and experience.

High-visibility colours on sails, wings and foils, so others can easily spot Nikki from a distance.

Capsize-righting ropes as standard, so sailors of any weight can easily right the boat.

Sailing Vertsatility

Sailors have the option of flying high or riding low in displacement mode. All Nikki’s come with inserts that clip into the vertical foils to use for displacement sailing.

Ultimate Rig Control

State of the art high-performance, over-rotating rig accompanied with a vang track. The over-rotation delivers power and efficiency, whilst the vang track provides the ability to achieve the ultimate control for leech tension required for foiling.

Two-piece carbon fibre mast features a halyard designed specifically to make rigging and de-rigging easy on shore or the water.

The mast bases are of different lengths to suit the sail sizes, and all tips and bases are easily interchangeable.

Fully adjustable spreaders are standard, allowing sailors of different weights to be competitive in the same class.

Which Nikki sail is right for you?

This chart is only an indication of what is best for an average sailor in flat water conditions. More experienced sailors may choose to use larger rigs in windier conditions.

3 different rig sizes available for all sailor weights and conditions: 4.3m², 5.5m² and 6.5m²